公开(公告)号：US20090083117A1

公开(公告)日：2009-03-26

申请号：US11609962

申请日：2006-12-13

申请人： Hugh Svendsen ,  Michael T. Hoffman

发明人： Hugh Svendsen ,  Michael T. Hoffman

IPC分类号： G06Q99/00 ,  G06F7/06 ,  G06N5/02 ,  G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F17/30386 ,  G06F17/30209 ,  G06F17/30663 ,  G06F17/30743 ,  G06F17/30749 ,  G06F17/30758 ,  G06F17/30766 ,  H04L67/30

摘要： A system and method are provided for matching participants in a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) recommendation network that is loosely coupled to a subscription music service. In general, the system includes a central server and a number of peer devices. For each of the peer devices, an associated user is either a subscriber to the subscription music service or a non-subscriber. When a user of a peer device desires to identify new friends with which to exchange recommendations in the P2P recommendation network, a friend recommendation function of the central server identifies new friends for the user of the peer device based on the user's status as either a subscriber or a non-subscriber to the subscription music service.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于匹配松散耦合到订阅音乐服务的对等（P2P）推荐网络中的参与者的系统和方法。 通常，系统包括中央服务器和多个对等设备。 对于每个对等设备，相关联的用户是订阅音乐服务的订户或非订户。 当对等设备的用户希望识别在P2P推荐网络中交换建议的新朋友时，中心服务器的朋友推荐功能基于用户的状态来识别对等设备的用户的新朋友作为订户 或订阅音乐服务的非订阅者。

公开(公告)号：US20090077160A1

公开(公告)日：2009-03-19

申请号：US11539366

申请日：2006-10-06

申请人： Hugh Svendsen ,  Eugene Farrelly

发明人： Hugh Svendsen ,  Eugene Farrelly

IPC分类号： G06F17/30 ,  G06F3/048 ,  G06F15/16

CPC分类号： G06F3/0482 ,  G06F3/04842 ,  G06F17/30029 ,  G06F17/30867 ,  G06F17/30876

摘要： A system and method using events to traverse a content selection path for the purpose of providing media content selections are provided. In general, events are defined based on one or more stimulus such as, but not limited to, a chronological-based stimulus, a location-based stimulus, a user-based stimulus, a third-party stimulus, or a weather-based stimulus. Each of the events is used to trigger one or more associated content selection paths. A content selection path generally defines a set of media content and a manner of stepping through the defined set of media content. In operation, when an event is detected, the associated content selection path is triggered to step to the next step in the content selection path, thereby identifying the media content selections. Then, according to one embodiment of the present invention, the media content selections are obtained from a remote subscription-based service.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种使用事件遍历内容选择路径以提供媒体内容选择的系统和方法。 一般来说，事件是基于一种或多种刺激来定义的，例如但不限于基于时间顺序的刺激，基于位置的刺激，基于用户的刺激，第三方刺激或基于天气的刺激 。 每个事件用于触发一个或多个关联的内容选择路径。 内容选择路径通常定义一组媒体内容和逐步通过定义的媒体内容集合的方式。 在操作中，当检测到事件时，相关联的内容选择路径被触发以进入内容选择路径中的下一步骤，从而识别媒体内容选择。 然后，根据本发明的一个实施例，从远程基于订阅的服务获得媒体内容选择。

公开(公告)号：US20090055396A1

公开(公告)日：2009-02-26

申请号：US11757263

申请日：2007-06-01

申请人： Hugh Svendsen ,  Waymen J. Askey

发明人： Hugh Svendsen ,  Waymen J. Askey

IPC分类号： G06F7/00

CPC分类号： G11B27/105 ,  G11B27/00 ,  G11B27/11 ,  H04L12/00 ,  H04L29/00 ,  H04L67/104 ,  H04L67/1082 ,  H04L67/306

摘要： A computer-implemented method and system are provided for replaying media items. Aspects of the method and system include in response to one of the media items being played, calculating a respective replay score for the media item that affects replay of the corresponding media item; and using the replay score to sort the media items for playing.

摘要翻译： 提供计算机实现的方法和系统来重放媒体项目。 方法和系统的方面包括响应于正在播放的一个媒体项目，计算影响相应媒体项目的重放的媒体项目的相应重放分数; 并使用重放分数来排序要播放的媒体项目。

公开(公告)号：US20090049045A1

公开(公告)日：2009-02-19

申请号：US11757219

申请日：2007-06-01

申请人： Waymen J. Askey ,  Hugh Svendsen

发明人： Waymen J. Askey ,  Hugh Svendsen

IPC分类号： G06F7/08

CPC分类号： G06F16/635 ,  G06F16/639

摘要： A computer-implemented method and system are provided for sorting media items in a playlist on a media device that are ranked by score. One embodiment includes providing each of the media items with a respective profile score that is based on user preferences and a respective replay score that affects replay of the corresponding media item; and automatically sorting the media items by the replay scores. Another embodiment includes sorting the media items by a sort criteria indicated by a user; sorting the media items by at least one score associated with each of the media items; displaying the playlist; and playing the media items in the playlist according to sort order and automatically skipping media items that have already been played. Yet a further embodiment includes changing a user preference associated with a sort criteria selected by the user, wherein each of the media items includes a profile score that is calculated based on user preferences, and a replay score that affects replay of the corresponding media item; recalculating the profile score and the replay score of each of the media items; sorting the media items by the replay scores; and sorting the media items by the sort criteria indicated by a user.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种计算机实现的方法和系统，用于对通过分数排列的媒体设备上的播放列表中的媒体项进行排序。 一个实施例包括为每个媒体项提供基于用户偏好的相应简档分数和影响相应媒体项的重放的相应重播分数; 并根据重播得分自动对媒体项目进行排序。 另一个实施例包括通过用户指示的分类标准对媒体项进行排序; 通过与每个媒体项目相关联的至少一个评分来对媒体项目进行排序; 显示播放列表; 并根据排序顺序播放播放列表中的媒体项目，并自动跳过已播放的媒体项目。 另一个实施例包括改变与由用户选择的分类标准相关联的用户偏好，其中每个媒体项目包括基于用户偏好计算的简档分数以及影响对应媒体项目的重播的重播分数; 重新计算每个媒体项目的简档分数和重播分数; 按重播分数对媒体项进行排序; 并按照用户指定的排序条件对媒体项进行排序。

公开(公告)号：US20080016205A1

公开(公告)日：2008-01-17

申请号：US11484130

申请日：2006-07-11

申请人： Hugh Svendsen

发明人： Hugh Svendsen

IPC分类号： G06F15/173

CPC分类号： G06F17/30017 ,  H04L67/104 ,  H04L67/1068

摘要： A peer-to-peer (P2P) network for providing real time media recommendations is provided. The media recommendations may be song recommendations or video recommendations. Each time a media presentation is played by a peer device, the peer device provides a recommendation identifying the media presentation to other peer devices in the P2P network. A peer device having received recommendations from the other peer devices in the P2P network then programmatically, or automatically, selects a next media presentation to play from the media presentations recently played by the other peer devices and one or more locally stored media presentations. If the selected media presentation is not stored locally by the peer device, the peer device may obtain the selected media presentation from a subscription based service enabling streaming or download of the selected media presentation, an e-commerce service enabling purchase and download of the selected media presentation, or another peer device.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于提供实时媒体推荐的点对点（P2P）网络。 媒体推荐可能是歌曲推荐或视频推荐。 每当对等设备播放媒体呈现时，对等设备向P2P网络中的其他对等设备提供标识媒体呈现的推荐。 已经从P2P网络中的其他对等设备接收到建议的对等设备然后以编程方式或者自动地从最近由其他对等设备播放的媒体演示文稿和一个或多个本地存储的媒体呈现中选择下一媒体播放播放。 如果所选择的媒体呈现不被对等设备本地存储，则对等设备可以从基于订阅的服务获得所选择的媒体呈现，使得能够流式传输或下载所选择的媒体呈现，电子商务服务能够购买和下载所选择的媒体 媒体演示或另一个对等设备。

公开(公告)号：US20070245378A1

公开(公告)日：2007-10-18

申请号：US11403598

申请日：2006-04-13

申请人： Hugh Svendsen

发明人： Hugh Svendsen

IPC分类号： H04N5/445

CPC分类号： H04N7/17318 ,  H04N21/25891 ,  H04N21/4667 ,  H04N21/47211 ,  H04N21/8549

摘要： A system and method for providing previews, such as song and video previews, to a portable media player are provided. In general, a play history for the portable media player is generated as media files are played by the portable media player and provided to a central system hosting an e-commerce service providing media content. The play history is provided to a central system either indirectly through an associated user system or directly through a network. Based on the play history, the central system selects a number of previews for the portable media player. The previews are provided to the portable media player either indirectly through the associated user system or directly through the network. The previews may then be played on the portable media player and, if desired, selected for purchase.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于向便携式媒体播放器提供诸如歌曲和视频预览之类的预览的系统和方法。 通常，当便携式媒体播放器播放媒体文件并提供给托管提供媒体内容的电子商务服务的中央系统时，产生便携式媒体播放器的播放历史。 播放历史可以间接通过相关的用户系统或直接通过网络提供给中央系统。 根据播放历史，中央系统为便携式媒体播放器选择了许多预览。 通过相关联的用户系统间接地或直接通过网络将预览提供给便携式媒体播放器。 然后可以在便携式媒体播放器上播放预览，并且如果需要，选择购买。

公开(公告)号：US07266563B2

公开(公告)日：2007-09-04

申请号：US10034277

申请日：2001-12-28

申请人： Robert Paul Morris ,  Hugh Svendsen ,  Patty Scardino

发明人： Robert Paul Morris ,  Hugh Svendsen ,  Patty Scardino

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F17/30722 ,  G06F17/30265 ,  G06F17/3028 ,  Y10S707/915 ,  Y10S707/99942 ,  Y10S707/99943 ,  Y10S707/99945

摘要： A method and system for allowing a user to define and use custom metadata is disclosed. The method and system include providing a network accessible server with a metadata library having plurality of metadata vocabularies. The server allows the user to create a custom metadata vocabulary by displaying a user interface on a client computer in which the user specifies a plurality of properties defining the custom metadata vocabulary. When the custom metadata vocabulary is defined, it is stored in the metadata library for subsequent access. The method and system further allow the user to search the metadata library to select at least one of the metadata vocabularies to apply to an electronic resource.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种允许用户定义和使用自定义元数据的方法和系统。 该方法和系统包括向网络可访问服务器提供具有多个元数据词汇的元数据库。 服务器允许用户通过在客户端计算机上显示用户界面来创建自定义元数据词汇表，其中用户指定定义自定义元数据词汇表的多个属性。 当自定义元数据词汇被定义时，它被存储在元数据库中以供后续访问。 该方法和系统还允许用户搜索元数据库以选择要应用于电子资源的元数据词汇表中的至少一个。

公开(公告)号：US20060080286A1

公开(公告)日：2006-04-13

申请号：US10930719

申请日：2004-08-31

申请人： Hugh Svendsen

发明人： Hugh Svendsen

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： H04L67/306 ,  G06F16/58

摘要： A method and system for providing a network-based photosharing service is disclosed. The photosharing service includes a central photosharing site having a server, and a plurality of peer nodes each containing digital images. The method and system include associating metadata with each image that is to be shared. The metadata is standardized data indicating at least the position where the image was created. Preferably the data is GPS data, but can be from other sources, and is standardized. Storage of the images is maintained on the respective peer nodes. In response to the peer server receiving search criteria based on the metadata submitted from a first one of the peer nodes, the peer server returns a list of image locators for images matching the search criteria to the first peer node. The images are returned in order of accuracy of the position information data source. There is also disclosed a method and system implemented on a single computer.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种用于提供基于网络的照片共享服务的方法和系统。 照片共享服务包括具有服务器的中央照片分割站点和每个包含数字图像的多个对等节点。 该方法和系统包括将元数据与要共享的每个图像相关联。 元数据是指示至少创建图像的位置的标准化数据。 数据最好是GPS数据，但可以来自其他来源，并且是标准化的。 图像的存储保持在各个对等节点上。 响应于对等服务器基于从第一对等节点提交的元数据接收到搜索标准，对等服务器将与搜索条件匹配的图像的图像定位符列表返回给第一对等节点。 按照位置信息数据源的精度顺序返回图像。 还公开了在单个计算机上实现的方法和系统。

公开(公告)号：US06629100B2

公开(公告)日：2003-09-30

申请号：US10122082

申请日：2002-04-12

申请人： Robert Paul Morris ,  Hugh Svendsen ,  Patricia Scardino

发明人： Robert Paul Morris ,  Hugh Svendsen ,  Patricia Scardino

IPC分类号： G06F1730

CPC分类号： G06F17/30206 ,  G06F17/30265 ,  G06K9/00677 ,  H04L67/104 ,  H04L67/1063 ,  H04L67/1072 ,  H04L67/306 ,  H04N1/2183 ,  H04N1/32101 ,  H04N2201/3254 ,  H04N2201/3277 ,  Y10S707/99931 ,  Y10S707/99932 ,  Y10S707/99933 ,  Y10S707/99939

摘要： A method for executing searches for resources that span more than one private resource repository in a restricted-access resource sharing system is disclosed. The system includes at least one server node and multiple peer nodes connected to a network. Resources, such as data digital images, may be retrieved from the nodes based by issuing queries containing terms matching the metadata associated with the resources. The method includes maintaining storage of resources and associated metadata on respective peer nodes, wherein the associated metadata is based on at least one metadata vocabulary. Each of the peer nodes is allowed to indicate to the server that the metadata vocabularies associated with the resources are designated as private, thereby becoming a restricted access peer node. If a first restricted access peer node specifies to the server which metadata vocabularies the first restricted access peer node supports, a first level of privacy is provided whereby search queries received by the server that use the specified metadata vocabularies are passed to the first respective restricted access peer nodes for processing, while searches that do not use the specified vocabularies are processed by the server. If the first restricted access peer node does not specify to the server which metadata vocabularies the first restricted access peer node supports, a second level of privacy is provided whereby search queries received by the server are passed to the first respective restricted access peer nodes for processing.

公开(公告)号：US09172117B2

公开(公告)日：2015-10-27

申请号：US12327848

申请日：2008-12-04

申请人： Ravi Reddy Katpelly ,  Christopher M. Amidon ,  Hugh Svendsen

发明人： Ravi Reddy Katpelly ,  Christopher M. Amidon ,  Hugh Svendsen

IPC分类号： G01R31/36 ,  H01M10/48 ,  G06F1/32 ,  H01M10/44 ,  H04W52/02

CPC分类号： H01M10/4257 ,  G01R31/3693 ,  G06F1/3203 ,  G06F1/329 ,  H01M10/44 ,  H01M10/48 ,  H01M2010/4271 ,  H01M2220/30 ,  H04W52/0258 ,  H04W52/0264 ,  Y02D10/24 ,  Y02D70/122 ,  Y02D70/142 ,  Y02D70/144

摘要： A user-controlled application-based power management function is provided for a battery-operated device. In general, for each of a number of applications of the battery-operated device, a power management function enables a user of the battery-operated device to provide a usage parameter for the application defining a desired amount of usage of the application for each of one or more tasks. For each task, the power management function determines an estimated amount of battery life that is sufficient to provide the desired amount of usage of the application for the task and determines whether the estimated amount of battery life is available. If the estimated amount of battery life is available, the power management function allocates an amount of battery life corresponding to the estimated amount of battery life to the application for the task.

摘要翻译： 为电池供电的设备提供用户控制的基于应用的电源管理功能。 通常，对于电池供电设备的多个应用中的每一个，电源管理功能使得电池供电设备的用户能够为应用提供定义用于每个应用的所需应用量的使用参数 一个或多个任务。 对于每个任务，电源管理功能确定足以提供用于该任务的应用的期望量的使用量的估计的电池寿命量，并且确定估计的电池寿命量是否可用。 如果估计的电池寿命可用，则电源管理功能将与估计的电池寿命量相对应的电池寿命量分配给该任务的应用程序。